Robert Powell Biography
West Australian artist, entertainer, and poet with mental health disorders. Success has yet to find me, but I've done a few years of stand-up comedy, been the MC for charity events, fashion shows and weddings, appeared in student films and a local mini-series, and am currently volunteering as a dj for Rockingham community radio station IPL Radio.
I've been trying to make a living painting and selling art for the past three years, and I began writing poetry in earnest during this time, with the intention of creating a coffee table book of art and poetry.
There once was a planet named Earth
Which apes took for all it was worth
And when the rivers ran slick
With a poisoinous ick
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Colour and form, shapes and patterns
Is that not me?
A fortress, windows secured by battens
Is that what you see?
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Have you walked the untamed land
And swam the virgin sea
Seen where rocks are turned to sand
Breathed air that's truly free?
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These stark white walls give anxiety
And we know lifes spice is variety
Yet public buildings in totality
Are stark stark white
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